Roger has worked in ICT for many years and has a strong commercial background having worked for some of the leading blue chip companies, mainly in the telecommunications industry.

As both a senior business manager and consultant he has been responsible for steering IT groups and organisations through significant culture change and business development.

In the early 90s he was a member of a Board responsible for selling and delivering large network solutions to the UK Government. 

In 1994 he was heavily involved in business development as an executive director of a company specialising in IT systems for the leisure industry.

He was appointed Director of the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council Bioscience IT Service in 1996 and responsible for providing strategic advice and guidance to the Board of Directors as well as providing the BBSRC wide area network service linked to the JANET service, and other associated ICT support services to the BBSRC sponsored institutes and external customers.

In 2002, he was nominated to The JNT Association (JANET-UK) Board as a non executive director by the Office of Science & Innovation to represent OSI and the eight UK Research Councils. In October 2010 he was nominated to the Board for a second term by the Research Councils Executive Group.